Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art موزه هنر های معاصر تهران

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, (Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran.

It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century's world-class European and American paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. TMoCA also has one of the greatest collections of Iranian modern and contemporary art.

The museum was inaugurated by Empress Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی), née Farah Diba (دیبا), in 1977, just two years before the 1979 Revolution.

TMoCA is considered to have the most valuable collections of modern Western masterpieces outside Europe and North America.

According to Farah Pahlavi, the former Empress of Iran, the idea for this museum happened when she was in conversation with artist Iran Darroudi during a gallery opening in the 1970s and Darroudi mentioned she wished there was a place to show work more permanently.

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art museum was supposed to be a place to show contemporary and modern Iranian artist alongside other international artists doing similar work.

The museum was designed by Iranian architect and cousin of the queen, Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture of Yazd, Kashan and other desert towns.

Diba collaborated with architect Nader Ardalan during the design phase.[1] It was built adjacent to Farah Park, renamed Laleh Park after the Islamic revolution, and was inaugurated in 1977.

The building itself can be regarded as an example of contemporary art, in a style of an underground New York Guggenheim Museum.[9] Most of the museum area is located underground with a circular walkway that spirals downwards with galleries branching outwards.[9] Western sculptures by artists such as Ernst, Giacometti, Magritte and Moore can be found in the museum's gardens.

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